Here’s a delicious recipe for French Onion Soup. It’s super easy, but it does take time to caramelize the onions.
Cooking the onions
I like to use a low-sodium beef broth, if I am not using a homemade broth.
For the bread I typically use Italian or French. I buy the whole uncut loaf, so I can cut extra thick pieces of bread for the cheesy crouton that tops the soup.
Soups in oven
The cheese I used was a combination of Gruyere and Fontina, just because that’s what we happened to have in the cheese drawer. I also love the flavor of Swiss cheese, either alone or mixed with Gruyere or Fontina. A blue cheese crouton is also a favorite! Seriously, it’d be pretty hard to find a cheese that I wouldn’t like on top.
| French Onion Soup |
Recipe Type: Soup
Author:
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 50 mins
Total time: 1 hour
Serves: 4
Delicious French Onion Soup recipe using ingredients that most people have in their pantry!
Ingredients
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 1 Tablespoon butter
- 3 large white onions, thinly sliced
- 3 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 2 bay leaves
- 3 sprigs of fresh thyme
- slat and pepper, to taste
- 1/2 cup red wine
- 2 Tablespoons flour
- 6 cups beef broth
- 4 pieces of thick cut bread
- 3 whole cloves of garlic
- 1 to 2 cups of grated Gruyere & Fontina blend
Instructions
- Add the olive oil and butter into a large saucepan on medium heat.
- Add onions, garlic, bay leaves, thyme, salt and pepper.
- Cook for about 20 minutes, stirring often, until the onions are soft.
- Stir in the red wine and allow to come to a boil.
- Turn down heat to low and simmer until all the wine has evaporated, stirring often.
- Remove the thyme sprigs and bay leaves.
- Sprinkle flour over the onions, stir and cook for about 5 minutes.
- Stir in the beef broth and allow the sop to simmer for another 10 minutes or so.
- Taste and adjust seasonings, if needed.
- Toast the bread slices.
- Rub the whole garlic cloves over the tops of the toasted breads until the garlic melts away into the bread.
- Place 4 ovenproof bowls on a baking sheet and ladle the soup into bowls.
- Top each soup with a toasted bread slice.
- Top with cheese.
- Place in the oven on broil until the cheese is bubbly and golden brown. This will only take a few minutes, so be sure to keep an eye on it.
Enjoy!!
It’s sunny and cold here today and that soup would be brilliant!! It’s my all-time favorite soup. I will make this one!
It’s one of my favorites, too!
I have been searching for a great French Onion soup recipe. This looks fabulous and delicious as well. I’m definitely book marking and trying…as soon as it’s not a thousand and five degrees here in south Florida! Would you say this is good for the crock pot also? I’m a 9 to 5er before I hit the kitchen. Seems like it would be a great meal to come home to one night.
I think it would be perfect for the crockpot. You could easily make the toast for the top and have a delicious stress-free evening!